Petit-Goave. Toussaint proclaims an amnesty to the South from here.

Despite the entreaties of Vincent and Raymond, the general-in-chief would not have these words inscribed on the flags of the colonial troops: Brave Blacks, remember that the French people alone recognizes your liberty and the equality of your rights. He declared that the Blacks owed their liberty to nothing but their heroism in battle. He left Le Cap and came in the course of June into the department of the West. He went to Petit-Goâve, from where, by a proclamation dated 19 June (1 Messidor), he announced to the citizens of the South that he had received instructions from the Consular government directing him to restore peace and order in the colony as soon as possible, and that he would grant all the rebels a full and complete amnesty if they laid down their arms. We see that Bonaparte followed toward Saint-Domingue the same policy as the Directory: to let the Blacks weaken themselves by crushing the men of color, to maintain the stronger in his rank and honors, and to keep silent about the weaker. The absolute authority of the mother country was to be restored on the ruins of both parties. The result of Colonel Vincent’s mission to Europe had been to leave things as they were before his departure; the Consular government, while maintaining Toussaint in his rank of general-in-chief, kept silent about the conduct of Rigaud; and so the war went on with fury.